Shadle Bridge Across the Kanawha River at Point Pleasant, West Virginia (built in 1930). It has since been replaced by a new bridge – the Bartow Jones Bridge (named after former Governor Brereton Jones’ father) built in 1999. This is where I was born and grew up. The Ohio River is in the background, and “up around the bend” was Silver Bridge, built in 1928 and collapsed killing 46 people in 1967 (my dad’s funeral home was on Main Street, 3 blocks from the Silver Bridge) Look closely and you can see the Point Pleasant Battle Monument (granite obelisk erected 1909). The area where the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers meet was named “Tu-Endie-Wei” which is a Wyandotte word meaning “point between two waters.” At the junction of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers stands this monument which commemorates the frontiersmen who fought and died at the Battle of Point Pleasant. This battle was fought with Chief Cornstalk on October 10,1774, and is recognized as the decisive engagement in a proactive series of Indian wars. Locals believed the Indians were fighting at the behest of Lord Dunmore to weaken the militia. The battles at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts took place on April 19, 1775, just 6 months later and before the Virginia fighters had returned to their homes in what western W.Va and eastern Va. For what it is worth the Kanawha River is the outflow of the New River whose headwaters are in North Carolina – the oldest river in North America and even older than the Nile River.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky will hear oral arguments for the month of July 2015 on July 22 at Frankfort; June 30 at Louisville.
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